Pneumonia symptoms in children

summary

If you have been to a hospital, you will be surprised to find that more than half of the children hospitalized are pneumonia. Pneumonia is also the biggest killer of children's death. As young parents, how should we judge whether the baby has pneumonia. The main symptom of infantile pneumonia is cough, often accompanied by expectoration, wheezing and fever. Let's talk about the symptoms of infantile pneumonia

Pneumonia symptoms in children

1. First, the fever has not subsided for more than 3 or 4 days, or it burns again after a few hours. It's time to be on the alert for pneumonia. A cold usually subsides in three or four days. Some parents think that pneumonia is caused by burning for a long time. In fact, it's not. Fever is just the manifestation of pneumonia. Some parents think that high fever is pneumonia. My baby has a low fever for a few days, not pneumonia. This idea is also wrong. Pneumonia doesn't necessarily burn very high. Some children don't burn when they have pneumonia, or even have a low temperature.

2. Cough for a long time, start to cough without phlegm, after a few days cough up sputum, this also need to be vigilant whether got pneumonia. Of course, pneumonia doesn't have to cough up sputum. Many infants about one year old can't cough up sputum at all. If they can't cough up sputum, they will be very irritable and cry all the time. It's useless to pacify them.

3. Breathing is very fast, chest undulation is much faster than before, when it's serious, it's the first bit. We should also be alert whether we have pneumonia. The reason for faster breathing is that pneumonia causes the baby to feel lack of oxygen, so it can only speed up breathing to increase oxygen supply.

matters needing attention

In order to discover children's pneumonia in time, careful mothers should also pay attention to children's mental state. If the child is in a good mood, can play and loves to laugh while having a fever, coughing and wheezing, the possibility of suffering from pneumonia is very small. On the contrary, the child's poor mental state, blue lips, irritability, crying or sleeping, wind, a small number of children can appear delirium, which means that the child is more seriously ill, more likely to get pneumonia. In the early stage of pneumonia, the child may not have obvious mental changes, or may not be in a good mental state. Pneumonia will significantly reduce appetite, children with pneumonia, do not eat, or a milk on crying restless. If the child has been diagnosed with pneumonia, should continue feeding, feeding, drink more soup food, if the child appetite loss, should be a small number of meals, breast-feeding infants should increase the number of times a day to enhance nutrition and physical strength.